Comments on: Bipolar on Towers

By: kent

kent — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:59:42 +0000

Or, it came in a big box and someone just ripped it open and left it.

By: dan cortland

dan cortland — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:39:30 +0000

Re the PB E pic: for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the AT&T tower’s foreskin, now we know.

By: cale

cale — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:58:12 +0000

Candela looks amazing. Between this and 5th/Columbia, I am quite the happy Seattle camper. It’s replacing a parking lot next to Pike Place market… how could that possibly be less reason to go downtown ;-)

Is there retail at the base or is it just going to be a lobby?

I’m usually a big fan of PB elemental, but that just looks too much like hanky the christmas poo for me to take seriously.

By: joshuadf

joshuadf — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:36:17 +0000

Yeah, I can’t really think of any on Capitol Hill which does seem strange. There’s a Silver Cloud by Seattle U.
There are a couple decent small hotels in the U-District, plus Hotel Deca and the Watertown. My favorite is the College Inn, which is a beautiful historic building.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:44:01 +0000

I know that zoning laws are partly to blame for this, as well as supply and demand, but it seems absurd to me that hotels in seattle are so thickly concentrated in the downtown area.

Hotels are nice for visitors, but they aren’t very useful for city inhabitants. The more downtown is packed with high rise hotels, the less reason I have to go downtown. On the other hand, some of the smaller businesses up in my neighborhood would probably love to have the tourist-traffic that hotels would bring.

It would be really nice to have some mid-price range, less high-rise hotels in capitol hill or the central district. The hotels in downtown are so expensive that there must be some demand for this. (for example, when my family comes to visit, they often have to stay in the suburbs, because the seattle hotels are priced way too high)

Either way, I think the design of the hotels in these pictures are rather impressive.